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Show J. Grime in Bracken Lee Answers J. SENATOR BENNETT it Friday, November 13, W THE AMERICAN STATESMAN Page 4 la much harder to get people angry about bills which are going to be paid by their grandchildren than it is to get them angry about bflli which they themselves are going to have to pay out of their own pockets the following ApriL So repeal of the 16th amendment would not suddenly cause spending to decrease it would more likely have the opposite effect, increasing the attitude of fiscal irresponsibility and wiping out much of the grass roots opposition to' spending which now has its basis in the income tax. Do you not agree that this would be the probable effect of elimination of the income tax? 7. This question is related to the previous one. The Idea of repealing the income tax is based on the theory that If you dont give the government money, it wont spend it; that if Congress doesnt have cadi on hand to spend on new programs, it wont go ahead and authorize them. If this assumption is true, how did we get $290 billion into debt? Does not our present debt prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that Congress is willing to continue spending whether it has the money or not? TheU.S. BRACKEN LEE porations, individuals and others who will not conform to this theory of an central governul, ment Both Guilty , Now I agree with you complete- ly that deficit financing, the de- liberate cheapening of the value of our money is an act of thievery upon the part of the federal government in which they are now robbing every decent honest American who has attempted to lay aside something for his or her old age through life insurance, saving deposits and bonds. But the blame for this deficit financing lies directly at the door of both the Democrat and Republican leadership in this nation. The Democrats charge that, they reduced the budget of the President when they supported lower foreign aid appropriations than the President recommended. The Republicans claim that they reduced the Democrats-demandwhen they voted to rePork Barrel Bill duce the and the Federal Housing Bill. Both are equally guilty as the record will show. uoflMaa The crime problem grows steadily more critical. That is the only deduction that can be made from a new series of reports just made public by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The Bureaus Crime Index shows that crime in the United States increased 9.3 per cent in 1958 over the 1957 level. There were increases in each and every one of the Individual classifications murder, forcible rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny over $50, and auto theft e There la also a prodigious abundance of low cost, armed service groceries around Washington, D. C. And while there In stUl an occasional scalp lifted In Washington, It Is not the doings of the Indians. Thus the' armed forces are developing a great strike ing force of Kitchen Kom-mand- This armed services commis- os. Sen. Panl Douglas now finds there Is also a con- - c. W. Harder slderable force of Grocery Grenadiers. sary business has grown Into Sen. staggering proportions. Douglas estimates this year that the total business will be some where around $400,000,000, or dose to a half billion. Only three or four big food chains in the nation top this kind of volume. In fact. Sen. Douglas finds that the 8,851 workers in the armed forces 269 commissary, or food stores, in the continental United States, 4,789, or almost 5,000, are military personnel. Thus, 5,000 service men, are drawing a total of $17,263,580, or an average of $3,468 per year, to launch dried prunes into the stratosphere surrounding the check-ocounter. Of i so-call- ed redskins have been a problem in Charleston, South Carolina, and the Sioux haven't let fly an arrow around Sioux City, Iowa, recently either, but these are just a few of the many places where commissary stores operate. As investigations by Rep. Kowalski have pointed up, a large segment of the enlisted men in the armed forces are being hardened for combat by such chores as rinsing out the colonels lady's girdle, gardening, driving limousines for the brass, and other household and serving tasks. This sad record can not be attributed to population growth. That growth was only 1.7 per cent from 1957 to 1958. So crime increased five times as much. Putting it another way, the number of crimes per 100,000 inhabitants rose 7.4 per cent in the period covered. s Q0OM The juvenile crime situation is especially bleak. A survey covering 1 ,238 communities with dose to 44 million population shows that 8.1 per cent more persons under 18 were arrested, as against a 2.5 per cent increase for all ages. Won't Spend The mark up In the commisor less than sary stores is average cost of rental by private stores. Thus, Sen. Douglas computes, the armed forces Is being subsidized by the nations grocers somewhere between $48 and $68 million per year. 3, On the basis of Sen. Douglass disclosures, it looks very much now a special sub committee of the House Small Business Com- ut Moss Loss In reply to your statement number seven on page four of your letter, you state that the idea of re(Continued from Page 1 Col. 3) the income tax is based pealing 8. As I mentioned previously, upon the theory that if you dont political school, but Abraham Lincoln backed the ingive the money, they wont spend also lashed out at Democrats who come tax principle, and signed it that if Congress doesnt have supported Lee, declaring that they the first four national income money to spend on new programs, had been deluded. tax laws. It surprises me that it wont go ahead and authorize From a man who could poll only anything initiated by our most them and your assumption that if 38 beloved President could be conper cent of the vote in the 1958 his is true, how did we get $290 So .my billion into debt? Of sidered Senate race, the lecture did not sit course, I next question is: Do you believe do not believe that anyone can well with conservative Democrats that Lincoln, the father of the in- guarantee that Congress will not who place the welfare of their come tax in this country, was more money than it has on country, state and dty above party under the Influence of Marx pend land but I am under the impression loyalty. It certainly did not sit well when he advocated this tax as hat when you do away with the with the Rawlings Democrats, inlabor a fair and proper means of ob- 16th Amendment and the powers cluding some conof One them union members. taining revenue? Or was he degranted to the collector of internal Where was Moss, the liberately being disloyal to the revenue, the American people them- fided: of the laboring man, durConstitution? champion selves will be free from the fear of the long steel and copper government ing 9. The same question could be these Over strikes? in Russia, looking at asked about Theodore Roosevelt, agents and they themselves, will waterfalls! get rid of our Congressmen and another of our greatest Presidents, the man who personally Senators who continue to support led the fight for adoption of the a program of spending more than eight, shown on pages four and 16th amendment He believed the we need for the necessary opera- five. And I might say that many income tax principle was the tion of government. of the finest Americans have been fairest possible means of getting misled in their thinking, that none Wolves revenue. To what can we at of us are perfect, that all of us tribute his dedicated service in Another thing that I would like at some time or another have fallen behalf of the income tax? to point out is this; when this $40 for some plan. This is a part of billion is left at home with the human weakness recognized by the of wolves repre- founders of the Constitution. One For the purists the final people, tiie pack will be of the greatest weaknesses of man minorities vote count was J. Bracken ' Lee, senting organized and has been the fact that the more home to inclined more stay 33,332; his opponent polled 27,393. in time Washing- power he gets, the more he wants. Bracken gained two while his op not spend their is an old saying This grabbing of power will conthere because ton, ponent lost one. that is pretty true which says that tinue until the people arise and do where the meat hangs, the wolves something about it And just as We see where Rockefellers first gather. I feel rather certain that sure as I am writing this letter action in 1959 as Governor of New you will agree the wolves truly today, the time will come when York was to push through a sweep- gather in Washington today. Not the people will rise and get rid of ing tax increase. At the same time only the American wolves, but those in Washington who are bethe articles said that there is no wolves from all over the world. traying their trust difference between Republican can I think my answer to your point Power didates for president . . . What number happened to the Republicans who eight would also apply to I feel that I have already anto want reduce taxes? swered your statement number number nine. . and-drag-o- Sen. Douglas finds that the armed forces are still acting as if the Indians are on the warpath, as the commissary system of grocery selling by the army was set up in the old frontier days when the Old West did not boast of much in the way of privately operated food stores. " ut rank-and-fi- mittee, Rep. Multer, will make a searching probe of this matter. As a matter of fact, the figures on these commissary operations dont look too wholesome, or at least, are quite confusing. It is undoubtedly high time that the facts, all of them, are dragged out into the light. It very much appears that a full scale investigation of the situation could be quite shocking. In the meantime, 5,000 service men are preparing to resist the ynemy by weighing out sugar. But a check on the locations of the commissary stores shows for the most part they are located In pretty thriving business centers, where there hasnt been traces of hostile Indians for years. For example, it has perhaps been quite a spell since hostile (9 Uitloniil Mtntlai of Independent BnilneM le SEE LEE Dan Smoot ON TV ON TV NEW TIME EVERY SUNDAY 4:45 P.M. 4:45 P.M. EVERY SATURDAY ... 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